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- Wagner had an especially large following, which included the young Adolf Hitler, a lover of his music and an avid supporter of him. Wagner’s music was often played on special Nazi occasions during Hitler’s political regime.1 Hitler was also closely connected to Wagner’s family throughout his time in power.
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Many scholars have argued that Wagner's views, particularly his antisemitism and purported Aryan-Germanic racism, influenced the Nazis. These claims are disputed. Recent studies suggest that there is no evidence that Hitler even read any of Wagner's writings and further argue that Wagner's works do not inherently support Nazi notions of heroism.
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- Carolyn S. Ticker Cedarville University
Cedarville University, cticker@cedarville.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/musicalofferings Part of the European History Commons, Fine Arts Commons, Musicology Commons, and the Music Performance Commons DigitalCommons@Cedarville provides a publication platform for fully open access journals, which means...
The Holocaust will always be remembered as one of the most horrific and evil events in all of history. One question that has been so pervasive in regards to this historical event is the question of why. Why exactly did Hitler massacre the Jewish people? Why did he come to the conclusion that the Jews were somehow lesser than him, and that it was ok...
Wagner, Hitler, Holocaust, music, antisemitism, ideology, influence
R egarded as one of the worst periods in history, the Holocaust brought death and destruction to millions of innocent Jewish citizens. Since that time, it has not been easy for humanity as a whole to come to terms with what happened or even to understand what drove Hitler to commit such atrocious acts. While it is difficult to know for certain what...
- Carolyn S Ticker
- 2016
Feb 17, 2015 · Read this article. The question at the centre of this study is whether or not Adolf Hitler’s fascination with Richard Wagner, the man and the musician, originated in Wagner’s antisemitism. Based on primary sources, this study points in another direction, indicating that Hitler considered his attitude to Wagner to be a private, even intimate ...
- Dina Porat
- 2006
Apr 12, 2013 · He also influenced Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, even though he was already dead when the 12-year-old Hitler heard his music live for the first time, when he attended a production of...
Nov 8, 1998 · Wagner was no Hitler. He was, of course, a virulent anti-Semite. Yet Hitler, in his many writings and rantings on Wagner, seems never to have mentioned Wagner's antipathy to Jews. And...
Dec 3, 2013 · We know Hitler was enamoured with Wagner’s music from a young age and that he maintained close ties with Winifred Wagner (Richard Wagner’s daughter-in-law) and the Bayreuth Festival – but...
Feb 12, 2014 · Did Richard Wagner Inspire Hitler or Did He Inspire ‘Star Wars’? And Does It Matter? The whole question of modernity, in new assessments of the German composer and his work. by. Vladislav...
